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COLORADO WESTMORELAND INC. <br /> <br />P. O. Box E. Paonia. Colorado B142B ^ 303-527-415 <br />August 13, 1980 <br />\I <br />• <br />suB Sio inav OF <br />'.N ESiMOAELnND <br />r,~oi rn•n oea. <br />Mr. William R. Beavers <br />Office of Surface Mining <br />Technical Analysis 6 Research Division <br />L020 15th Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80202 <br />Mr. Pete Evans <br />Colorado Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Dear Mr. Beavers and Mr. Evans: <br />~~~~~~~~ <br />AU G 19 1980 <br />Pllln?Fp LP.ND RECL~p1A7~ONc <br />VQ ~ <br />On August 7, 1980, Ms. Patricia Farnsworth of Colorado Westmoreland Inc. (CWI) <br />and Richard F. Harnet of Harney-White Ecological Consultants, Inc. (HWEC) met in <br />your offices to discuss a proposed vegetation inventory of the Orchard Valley <br />Mine located in Paonia, Colorado. Later on the same day the scope of work for <br />the vegetation inventory of the Orchard Valley Mine was discussed with Mr. Rick <br />Mills of [he Colorado Department of Natural Resources. The purpose of this let- <br />ter is to document the results of those discussions. <br />Ms. Farnsworth indicated that the Orchard Valley Mine is an underground coal <br />mine with portal facilities located in the pinyon-juniper vegetation of Section <br />24. Loadout facilities are located in an orchard which is owned and operated by <br />CWI in Section 29. Access to the portal facilities is attained by the Stevens <br />Gulch Road which also serves as a Forest service access road. In Section 25 a <br />parking lot for employees at the portal facilities is located in mixed shrubs <br />vegetation type. As part of the mine's facilities a powerline/waterline <br />traverses through oakbrush vegetation in Sections 13 and 24. The line will be <br />revegetated; however, the powerline and well house will remain after CWI ceases <br />operations because it serves as a powerline for a local rancher. Ms. Farnsworth <br />explained that total surface area of the Orchard Valley Mine consists of <br />approximately 35 acres with 11 acres being occupied by the Loadout facility, 4 <br />acres Eor the parking lot, and approximately 20 acres in the portal facilities <br />location. The following scope of work for the vegetation inventory teas resulted <br />from [he discussions. <br />It was decided that field data collection would not begin in 1980, but would be <br />initiated in 1981. It was felt that the majority of the herbaceous production <br />in the pinyon-juniper vegetation type could not be obtained at this late date. <br />Therefore, CWI will be submitting the proposed scope of work to both the Office <br />of Surface Mining and the Colorado Department of Natural Resources as part of <br />its requirements. Both Mr. Beavers and Mr. M111s indicated that submittal of a <br />proposed plan without any vegetation data at this time would not affect CWI <br />